EDUCATION

From Colleges
Meritorious students honoured
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 25
Master Tara Singh College for Women organised an award-giving ceremony in which the students who had excelled in academics were felicitated today.

Dr Tara Singh Aalam, a prolific writer and leading exponent of natural living and holistic healing, was the chief guest while Ranjit Singh Rana was the guest of honour.

Proceedings of the programme were initiated with the recitation of college shabad followed by lighting of the ceremonial lamp.

The most notable part of the day was to institute a fund, to help the financially disadvantaged but meritorious students, to pursue their higher studies by providing financial assistance to them.

Students get tips on future placement
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 25
Dr Rajneesh Arora, director placements, GNDU, Amritsar, enlightened the students of Gujran Wala Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Technology (GGNIMT) during a seminar on “How to Prepare for a Rewarding Placement” here today.

During the interactive session, Dr Arora gave valuable tips to the students to help them get lucrative jobs in the market. He said the teachers could only guide and facilitate but the onus of getting the job lied solely with the students. For this, he said one needs to update himself/ herself in terms of skills, personality and communication.

Dr S.P. Singh, president, Khalsa Educational Council (KEC), Kuldip Singh, director of the institute and prof G.S. Dua, coordinator, were also present on the occasion.

From Schools
Talent search at GNPS
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, August 25
Guru Nanak Public School organised inter-class talent competition of class II and III here today.

The young buddies of class II performed in three categories i.e. solo song, solo dance and cat walk. 121 students of class II participated in this competition while 162 young nankians of class III presented various dances. The headmistress Pamela Lotey congratulated all the participants and prizewinners for participation.

ENVIRONMENT QUIZ: Eco-club of B.C.M Arya Model Senior Secondary School Shastri Nagar, organised inter-school environment quiz, resonating the theme of environment awareness and importance of sustainable global development while protecting the environment. Nearly 24 teams from various schools in and around Ludhiana participated in this quiz. The subject areas of the quiz also aimed to highlight renewable and non-renewable resources of energy, environment conservation and global warming. Ten of the 25 teams made it to the second round on the basis of written test (MCQ type) of which 4 made it to the finals after clearing various rounds.

B.C.M Arya Model Senior Seondary stood first. Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School came second. Third was Police DAV Public School.

LEARNING THROUGH FUN: This was the theme of the week celebrated at MGM Public School for KG kids that concluded here yesterday. Children learnt basics of shapes and concept of colours through art and craft activities. They drew shapes on floor filling in dry colour according to their imagination.

TOPPERS HONOURED: KVM School honoured its toppers who were successful in gaining top slots in the CBSE and other competitive examinations. The school principal extended a warm welcome to the chief guest Ishwar Singh, DIG Ludhiana Range and to the parents. As many as 52 students were honoured by the chief guest for gaining top slots in the CBSE and other competitive exams.

A short cultural programme was also presented on this occasion, which comprised of solo dance, solo song and a skit. Aneesh Bhatia a PMT topper thanked his almamater for guiding and helping him achieve his goals. 

Nabard grant for schools: Kanwaljit
Our Correspondent

Mohali, August 25
Nabard has cleared a sum of Rs 123 crore for schools in Punjab and three schools in every district will be given Rs 50 lakh each so that proper building and infrastructure can be provided. Capt Kanwaljit Singh, cooperation minister, said this after inaugurating a newly constructed block of Government Elementary School in Phase VII here yesterday. 

CULTURE

Double Deal: A thrilling suspense 
Vimal Sumbly
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 25
It was quite a thriller full of suspense right till the end. But the drama - Double Deal, directed by Mahesh Dattani, had lesser drama and action than expected and too much of dialogue. A brilliant adoption of Richard Stockwell's "Killing Time", this play could have impressed the audiences more than it did had the action been not replaced with narrative.

The play revolved around two main characters Jeet (Mahesh Manjrekar) and Rhea (Sandhya Mridul). They just meet as strangers and soon fell in love. As the drama unfolds it turns out to be too much of deceit and betrayal.

The audience interest is sustained by good dialogue delivery by both the outstanding actors who are already known on the silver screen.

Jeet meets Rhea in a shopping mall, where he pays her grocery bill as she finds her purse having been stolen. Later, it turns out that Jeet had stolen the purse. It was a part of his design to come close and learn about her husband Satbir. Jeet had had an enmity with Satbir.

Interestingly, the two had robbed a bank for which Jeet had to spend ten years in jail. To everybody's surprise it turns out that Rhea was the mastermind of the bank robbery.

Satbir, the invisible character despite his role in the play being too important and inalienable, had the stolen money. Rhea and Jeet plan to kill him. Rhea calls him to Jeet's place.

Even in this plan they are not sincere to each other. Jeet wants to kill Satbir and ensure that Rhea is imprisoned for his murder. Rhea wants to do the reverse. As Satbir is about to reach them, Rhea goes out and kills him there. She ties Jeet inside to make out as if he had killed Satbir. She makes an exit. Jeet rises again to have a look at the video he had installed to record everything. The play comes to an instant end there.

Satbir's off stage murder could have been enacted on the stage to add more drama to the thriller and audience would have certainly appreciated it more.